Afgesneden door de nieuws media halverwege zijn briefing.
Twee dagen terug in de Independent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... edium=Feed
Narcisme te voete uit.Donald Trump’s Monday night press briefing lost a huge share of its TV audience when almost all the major networks cut away from him mid-flow — with the exception of Fox News.
Whereas the networks have generally given full coverage to the White House’s coronavirus task force briefings, ABC, CBS and NBC all cut to their evening newscasts 20 minutes after Monday’s started and never went back — even though the president spoke until shortly after 8pm.
CNN cut away at around 7:20 pm, and MSNBC followed suit within five minutes.
While MSNBC was the last network to leave the briefing, a spokesperson was clear about the basis for its decision: “We cut away because the information no longer appeared to be valuable to the important ongoing discussion around public health.”
Mr Trump’s recent briefings have seen him argue that the US will be “open for business” much sooner than the administration’s own public health experts have said is possible. Specifically, he wants social distancing measures lifted by Easter Sunday, to prevent further damage to the economy.
The proposal has been met with alarm and anger by public health experts, who have warned that discarding social distancing policies in the next few weeks could cost millions of lives.
He has also used the briefings to claim he has consistently taken the outbreak seriously since it began, despite ample evidence to the contrary, while continuing to attack the media for its supposed vendetta against him.
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